Vase

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Object Name: 
Vase
Accession Number: 
50.4.256
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 21.0 cm, Rim Diam: 12.4 cm; Foot Diam: 9.6 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1800-1825
Primary Description: 
Vase. Lead glass, colorless; free-blown, with molded ribs on bowl, engraved; deep straight-sided bowl with slightly flaring rim and rounding at bottom to applied short button-knopped stem and circular foot with rough pontil mark; lower part of bowl with gadroon-ribbed cup-casing; upper part with engraved decorations at top, alternate polished disc and four-oval motif on ribbon band with zigzag-and-drop picot; depending from band, three fringed deep swags with polished leaf sprays curving from flower at center; in center of space between band and swags, large sunflower with polished center; depending between swags, four-petaled flower at end of long stem with opposing blade-like leaves.
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1930
to
1950-07-31
Glass Tableware, Bowls and Vases (1982) illustrated, pl. 316; BIB# 22048
American Glass (1948) (1948) illustrated, #10, pl. 22; BIB# 25297